[AGL] Erewhon crimes. Who the hell is Erewhon?

[Wayne Johnson]

So did one of my favorite British artists, btw.....Richard Dadd who spent 
most of his middle and later years in a nut house.  Executed "fairy" 
paintings of which The Fairie Fellow Master Stroke is, I think, the best 
known.

wgJ
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From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at hotpop.com>
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Subject: Re: [AGL] Erewhon crimes. Who the hell is Erewhon?


> Erewhon is an allegorical novel by one Samual Butler written, as I recall, 
> in the 18th Century.  It is nowhere, spelled backwards.  Read it in high 
> school.
>
> wgJ
>
> Yeah, and in Erewhon land it is a crime to be ill, whereas criminal 
> activity by Erewhonians  is considered a disease and it is compassionately 
> treated. Late 19th century. Butler also hated his father inordinately. 
> Read all about it in his The Way of all Flesh.
>
> Mike
>
>